Hey everyone, I'm back from my two weeks of sloth, and I feel glorious. To kick of 2018's Retro Videos of the Week, I'm going with The Eurythmics' signature song, "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)." The duo, comprised of Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, released their album of the same name 35 years ago tomorrow. Contrary to popular belief, the song is not about BDSM. Rather, Lennox and Stewart wrote it to grapple with the breakup of their prior band, The Tourists. The song is a new wave classic, instantly recognizable because of that synthesizer riff. It was the first song the group released in the U.S., and it went all the way to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. And it wasn't just the Americans who dug it. The song also went to #1 on the Canadian and French pop charts, #2 on the Belgian, Irish, New Zealand, and UK charts, and Top 10 in Australia, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa, and Switzerland.
The video introduced us to Lennox's orange hair and gender-bending style, not to mention Stewart being awkwardly close to a cow.
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